I thought it was over

TInmania wrote:

rjxj wrote:


Hummm, I've never seen any light bulb that's led or incandescent with a time limit for how long it's supposed to be on before it burns up. Interesting if so but Ive never seen it.

I am surprised by this response since you wrote this in the OP: "After about 5 minutes it started to smoke so I shot it with my temp gun and it registered 318 degrees and a few of the led's were flickering."

I'd say that LED had a definite time limit and you reached it.



As far as the specs, that doesn't matter much on some of these very inexpensive LEDs, as their quality is all over the map. This thread is evidence for that. Likewise, I am not surprised when I read a review of the $500 Harbor Freight 2500w/2200w inverter generator stating it doesn't actually put out that much power.




Mike

The spec or time limit is 80,000 hours not 5 minutes.

Again, I have never seen any bulb with a duty cycle. They didn't say it had a limited time that it could be ON. Have you ever seen or bought or heard of a bulb that is sold and it say do not leave this bulb on for more than X amount of time or it will go over 300 degrees and start to smoke and disintegrate. You are just assuming this only because you consider it to be intermittent because its being listed as a back up light. A dome light isn't on for long but if you were to forget and leave it on it doesn't go into melt down.

You said: " I'd say that LED had a definite time limit and you reached it". Again, where is any bulb listed like a welder or other device which does have a duty cycle?

It didn't reach some time limit, it's just junk that was not properly engineered. Simple as that.


Please show me one automotive bulb that they say should only be turned on for X amount of time or it will go into melt down. Thank you, as I'm always willing to learn and I am truly interested because I've never seen one.

I may have messed up your quoted text while editing this so please excuse that.